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Hugh Warwick’s e-petition in favour of Hedgehog Highways is approaching a third of a million signatures!  Fantastic work! Fantastic support! I regret that it isn’t on the Westminster parliament website because if it reached anything like that number there (which it might not for a variety of reasons) then it would have even more clout….

That nice Michael Gove wants to know what you think about National Parks in England (I think in England – I’ve only had a quick look). The consultation looks easy enouh to complete and we have ages to do so – two months. I’ll be coming back to this with some thoughts on how to…

This Jaguar is looking at you for help. The Big Match fortnight ends at midnight tonight – any money you donate before then will be matched and therefore doubled. So now is, please, the time to donate to this project to protect Jaguar habitats and all the life that depends on it in northern Belize….

Andrew Langley’s fantastic fund-raising deal of a quadrupling of all donations has very, very nearly reached his target of £5000 – he’s just £70 short.  And that means he is just £280 short of raising £20,000 for the World Land Trust’s Jungle for Jaguars appeal.  I’m sure he’ll get that £70 very soon. The Big…

I’ve been remiss in checking what John Riutta, The Well-read Naturalist, has been reading and blogging about recently so this is a catch-up. All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison. John has beaten me to reviewing this new novel from Melissa Harrison.  But having read this review, and having met the author once (and smiled,…

Spanish edition of Remarkable Birds.

The Savill’s annual shoot benchmarking survey for last season makes grim reading for the shooting industry – there aren’t enough takers for the millions of so-called wild birds that are shot for fun and profit every year.  Any pretence that shooting is connected to food is a distant memory despite these words in the Code…